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Awesome! Any person but Oshiomole. Anyways Tinubu will not agree to Yari and Ndoma-Egba. I don't know about Lokpobiri, if Oshiomole didn't resigned or goes away.. we will end APC and form another coalition shikenen

hammerU:
SEE, IT IS THIS MIXTURE OF RELIGION AND POLITICS THAT HAVE GOT THE NORTH WHERE IT IS TODAY WITH BOKO HARAM.


RELIGION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.

Actually it those. U have to address ideology in politics

My president why! WHY!! U save Oshiomole twice. Coming for his rescue for the third time is bad Idea. Because of Oshiomole APC av lost a lot. He doesn't like Osibanjo to contest. Is he expecting Muslim Muslim tickets or what. President Buhari should not intervene and let Oshiomole fight his own War.

The problem with Oshiomole

Are you looking at me with pity?” Chairman of Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, asked journalists who had besieged the gates of his Aso Drive residence in Abuja, as he made to fling himself into a waiting car for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, March 5, 2020.

It was a message of defiance and calmness from Oshiomhole, shortly after a court suspended him as APC chairman.


After his meeting with the president, Oshiomhole, still putting up a brave face and managing to briefly look unruffled, announced that a minister and a handful of governors are behind his current travails.


He should know.

“I am a child of light who will always defeat darkness,” he added, with the looks of a man barely clutching at straws, his bald pate now tanning uncontrollably in the baking Abuja temperatures.

Oshiomhole’s troubles didn’t begin this week or this month, however.

Oshiomhole waves the APC symbolic broom during a party meet (Punch)
Oshiomhole waves the APC symbolic broom during a party meet (Punch)
Announced APC chairman on June 23, 2018, after John Odigie-Oyegun's lethargic reign, Oshiomhole was propped to the throne and vaunted as the figure who unites a party still coming to grasps with the trappings and the allure of power at the center.

He was tasked with bringing together the alpha males and out-sized egos in his party; and setting them on a common path toward consolidation with an agenda everyone could identify with.

Soon after his emergence as party chairman however, Oshiomhole made it clear he was at war with Edo Governor and his successor as helmsman of the south-south state, Godwin Obaseki.

Both men do not see eye to eye to this day and it was Obaseki who ensured that the APC in Edo and Oshiomhole’s primary ward in the state, suspended the national chairman from the grassroots.

Without a power base to draw from, Oshiomhole has been left weakened and emasculated. Obaseki has almost seized control of the APC structure in Edo from Oshiomhole's grasp.

It is that lack of a power structure from his home state and the deployment of his office as a means to settle personal scores, that has now left Oshiomhole vulnerable to the extent that he risks kissing his position as party chairman goodbye.

Oshiomhole’s politics has been far from stellar. He’s alienated some of the most powerful governors in his party at a time when he should be forging a consensus with some of his party's most powerful figures.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Godwin Obaseki and APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole share a laugh in 2019 ( Presidency)
President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Godwin Obaseki and APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole share a laugh in 2019 ( Presidency)
Top party officials say Oshiomhole’s ‘my way or the highway’ leadership style has earned him more friends than foes within the top brass of the APC.

His 'detractors' say his straight-talking can come across as rude and that it rubs colleagues the wrong way.

The APC's National Working Committee (NWC) has also been split right down the middle on Oshiomhole's account and the governing party now exists as splinters and factions no thanks to Oshiomhole's polarising brand of politics.

Oshiomhole’s cause has also not been helped by the fact that the APC has lost a couple of states it should be winning and that the party gifted Bayelsa to the opposition PDP through what some chieftains have termed ‘schoolboy errors and carelessness’ from party headquarters.

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Buhari are quite the buddies [adelove]
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and Buhari are quite the buddies [adelove]
While he talks a big game, dances with an effervescence at campaign rallies and puts opponents to the sword with an acerbic tongue during press briefings and outings, Oshiomhole often comes across as brash, brusque, not together and bereft of strategy and careful planning in the running of the APC.

Those who are hell bent on kicking him out as party chairman may be doing so from a selfish standpoint, seeing as they are no better humans themselves, but it has to be said that Oshiomhole handed them the weapons for his own annihilation.

He may well survive this however, seeing as President Buhari and APC godfather Bola Tinubu have often taken a liking to him.

Should he want to last the distance and tighten his hold on power for a little longer, Oshiomhole has got to change who he’s become and crack the whip only when absolutely necessary.

APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, flanked by party executives (Guardian)
APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, flanked by party executives (Guardian)
Carrying on like one headmaster who whips recalcitrant chaps into line within the APC, was always going to land the lithe framed Oshiomhole in trouble.

Oshiomhole has got to lead by making sure most of the top dogs within the APC are singing from the same hymn sheet.

Anything less will amount to a hara-kiri.

hammerU:
STOP GOING TO DIG OUT 1970S PICTURE.

TIME HAVE CHANGED.

WOMEN NOW DRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA.

hahahaha now u came to ur sense are you a Christian?

hammerU:
THIS IS MRS OBAMA IN SAUDI ARABIA.

or Obama himself

hammerU:
THIS IS MRS OBAMA IN SAUDI ARABIA.

or this

hammerU:
THIS IS MRS OBAMA IN SAUDI ARABIA.

lol MRs Obama she is wife of a president I guess... Can you guess who is this

0m0nnakoda:
Life did not start in the Middle East rather it started in Africa.

Those tales about Abraham are just tales.
Like everyone around the world has their own story or myth.
Why black people insist on attaching themselves is bizarre but that is what happens when foreigners come in and delete your history and replace it with their own.


Man first appeared in Africa south of the Sahara tens of thousands of years before the tale of Abraham

Black people too have names for their ancestors NOT Abraham

Adam means black in Arabic... So yeah we are on the same track. There's Nuhu, Which is million of years before Abraham. Qur'an doesn't tell us time line of the Earth or humans. Islam doesn't contradict with evolution unless when it comes to humans Allah says we're special creatures amongst his creations

hammerU:
SO, IF I DONT DRESS LIKE AN ARAB AND ANSWER AN ARAB NAME, I WILL BE TRAETED LIKE A BLACK AFRICAN AND A SLAVE?

IS DAT NOT WAT U MEAN?

if you don't dress modestly they will not treat u well or respect u. Even ur slave masters dress well and cover there head in middle East. Especially if they will meet the leaders. U expect Arabs to treat you well if u dress like a crazy person. Even in Nigeria SARS and other paramilitaries don't treat ur kind with respect. Why all ur leaders in Nigeria dress like northerners and wear cap especially in Abuja

PDP house of corruption

hammerU:
I HAVE BEEN TO THE MIDDLE EAST.


I HAVE ARAB FRIENDS AND I KNOW HOW DEY REALLY VIEW BLACKS.


U ARE NOTHING BUT A SLAVE TO THEM. ANYOTHER THING IS JUST FAKE SMILES.

Asking me if I went to middle east funny.... Arabs will treat you the way you dress. They judge a book by it's cover

hammerU:
THE NORTH AND FULANI WERE CONQUERED BY ARABS.

DO U WANT ME TO TELL U, WAT THE ARABS CALL U IN THE MIDDLE EAST?


SLAVE!


ARABS CALL U SLAVES.

Never because they knew the history of prophet Abraham A.S two wives Sara and Hajara. Hajara Which is the linage prophet Muhammad S.W. A. Came from. She is black. Prophet MUSA. Solomon have darker skin because of black linage. There's is a complete sura in Qur'an about a black man his name is lukman. It's called sura lukma. Bilal is the first person to call adhan he is prophet Muhammad best friend. Islam is the religion that clearly prohibited racisms In the heart of a Muslim, there is no room for arrogance and racism. Allah tells us that the diversity of life, and the various languages and colors of human beings, is a sign of Allah’s majesty, and a lesson for us to learn about humility, equality, and the appreciation of differences. And among His wonders is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. For in this, behold, there are messages indeed for all who are possessed of innate knowledge!” (Quran 30:22).
“Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky? With it We then bring out produce of various colors. And in the mountains are tracts white and red, of various shades of color, and black intense in hue. And so amongst men, and crawling creatures, and cattle – they are of various colors. Those truly fear Allah, among His Servants, who have knowledge. For Allah is Exalted in Might, Oft-Forgiving” (Quran 35:27-28).
“Oh men! Behold, We have created you all out of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of Allah is the one who is most deeply conscious of Him. Behold, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware” (Quran 49:13).
“And He it is who has brought you all into being out of one living entity, and has appointed for each of you a time-limit on earth, and a resting-place after death. Clearly, indeed, We have spelled out these messages unto people who can grasp the truth!” (Quran 6:98).

Just because those who call themselves children of God because they have an agreement with lucifer. Told u are are inferior. Doesn't mean you are. There's no Arabs that will call u slave. Because in Islam we are all slave. I went to many Arabs countries they respect black people, so much but mostly only if u are Muslim. Have u ever heard black Muslim been humiliated in Libya no.
Also Adam means black in Arabic

hammerU:
Leadership is about being a Northerner.


Nigeria will die at the hands of North.


U people are destroyers.

well well tell that to the Chatham house and the Americans who are ur slave masters. They literally find u people naked while the northerners are fully clothed with our own government. Civilized they handed over Nigeria's leadership to us because leadership is not about University certificate. Look at what GEJ did to Nigeria... We will never allow people who are under the influence to rule US. Is not wise to give leadership to people who drink al-khul or abuse drugs. Nigeria is too complicated and powerful to be ruled by drunkards

hammerU:
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Spoken like an ALmajii.

IS BUHARI MORE QUALIFIED THAN HER?

yes leadership is not about paper qualifications

We are not... Thank you for the suggestion. The people who brainwashed you thru Hollywood and education still can't agree to elect female president. Look at what happens to Warren recently talkless of killary

GEJ the humble president

Our next president insha Allah
2023 Sai Osibanjo

They already did

Gen. Sani Abacha Was Largely Misunderstood
The painful death of Gen Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Ordinarily, twenty-one years is a long enough period for the living to forget the dead. But a lot of sentiments still trail Gen. Abacha’s name both in Nigeria and elsewhere. Why is it so? It is because the man had the infectious grin, the energy, the faithfulness, the shining confidence, the sagacity, the courage and the zest that leaped out of a background of solid patriotism hitherto unknown and yet to be rivaled in Nigeria. Therefore, to remember him now, twenty-one years after his untimely death, with the image of a living man in our hands, shows that Abacha is larger than life, in the memories, emotions, and minds of his fellow Nigerians. After death, the real Abacha is now the symbolic man, the figure about who have clustered the yearnings, the lofty ideals and the aspirations Nigerians have for themselves and their country.

Having worked himself up the hallowed cadre of the Nigerian ruling class as Head of State, Abacha, in his passion, concern and vulnerability, was one of the representative men of his generation. His personal quest for identity, understanding and power mirrored the turbulence, paradox and dream of mid-twentieth century Nigeria. He lived through a time of unusual turbulence in the history of the country, and he responded to that turbulence more directly and more sensitively than any other political leader of the era, at least in Africa. Gen. Abacha was equipped with certitudes of courage, faith and love for country- attributes that sustained him till death. But they were the premises, not the conclusions of his life. For he possessed, to an exceptional degree, what literary experts call “an experiencing nature”. History changed him, and had time permitted, he would have changed history. His relationship to his era makes him, unarguably, one who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh light and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries.

Indeed, Gen. Abacha never had the time to fulfill his own possibilities, which is why his memory haunts so many of us now. Because he wanted to get things done; because he was often impatient and combative; because he felt simply and cared deeply, he made his share of mistakes, and enemies. He was a romantic and also an idealist, and he was also prudent, expedient, demanding, fearless and ambitious. Yet the insights he brought to governance- insights earned in a labour of self-discipline and self-purgation that only death could stop- led him to see power not as an end in itself but as the means of redeeming the powerless. Abacha was to Nigeria what Charles de Gaule was to France: a man with military background but, who, ironically, brought uncommon composure and dignity to statecraft. This is not to say that military personnel possess exceptional leadership qualities. Far from it! Those ones only worked up themselves to become the tribunes of their generations. It only brings us to the incontrovertible fact that democracy is still preferred to the most benevolent military dictatorship anywhere, anytime. Abacha was indeed a diamond among stones. But because he was maligned and castigated by a section (Lagos/Ibadan axis) of the Nigerian Press due largely to political considerations, he became the most misunderstood of Nigerian leaders.

In fact, the emotional legacy left by Gen. Abacha is so intense in Nigeria, but it is yet deeper and even more fervent in the entire West African sub-region. This point is important and thus could be made with an antidote: since a man is not measured by what he did before he became a leader, or by what he said and did after he was a leader, but by what he did, and not by what he said while he was a leader, we can now comprehend the passionate veneration of Gen. Abacha’s memory. Today, we seek a sense of the man in order to understand the deep emotional response to the memory of the man. We know what happened and we cannot undo that knowledge. Even as his immediate friends and successors started destroying what he stood for soon after his painful exit, we cannot but get the record straight. But the meaning of that straightened record is inextricably involved in the meaning we also try each day to discern in the confusion of the living present. It is a tragic reality that those who thought to have upheld his enviable legacies have demonstrated a grand betrayal of what the man stood and died for. Could Abacha have built mansions, bought limousines, owned oil wells and own universities while in power? The answer to this poser is a loud NO!

The conditions of misery and inequality that troubled Abacha still persist among Nigerians while people in power remain untroubled. Despite his extremely emotional bent, Abacha’s youthful vigour and impressive grasp of the black man’s burden won for him national and international acclaim. His administration which lasted for about five (5) years was most memorable, leaving a 36-state structure for the country and achieving a leadership for Nigeria in Africa through a decisive foreign policy thrust that was basically Afrocentric, and a clearly defined anti-corruption war. Perhaps, the most concrete demonstration of this was his mobilisation of West African leadership to restore order in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Under his watch, Nigerian soldiers restored democracy to those West African countries. In 1996, Gen Abacha created a number of new states to give some marginalised people a sense of belonging: Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Gombe, Nasarawa and Zamfara.

An expression of his unrelenting crusade against corruption was accentuated in the setting up of the Anti-Failed Banks Tribunal and the National Deposit Insurance Corporation of Nigeria (NDIC). Even though his actions had some unintended consequences, his anti-corruption campaign was not merely cosmetic. It was on the basis of the depth and spread of his anti-corruption campaign that analysts had a unanimous position that his attempt at sanitising the system was total. But not for his mature and courageous handling of the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election crisis, Nigeria would have relapsed into another civil war. Despite the Afrocentricism of Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust under Gen. Abacha, Nigeria was not a big brother without a home, her impact was deeply felt in all the four corners of Africa. When Cameroon tried to annex part of the Nigerian territory in 1995, Abacha sent Nigerian troops to check that country’s egocentric maneuvering. Under him, the Nigerian economy was most stable throughout his years in power despite being branded a pariah state as a result of international conspiracy against Nigeria. Throughout Gen. Abacha’s five years in the saddle, Nigeria did not owe any external debt.



What people now mischievously refer to as “the Abacha loot” was the money the country kept in foreign banks deliberately to ward off the plot by the foreign powers to block our foreign reserve. This shows that Gen. Abacha was ahead of his time. He was a very trust-worthy man who never disappointed his friends. His composite love for Nigerians was legendary. Of all the military men who ruled Nigeria from 1976 to 1999, after the assassination of Gen. Murtala Muhammed: Olusegun Obasanjo, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha, and Abdulsallami Abubakar, Abacha was the best in terms of managing the economy for the good of all Nigerians. His economic team led by Prof. Sam Aloku, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, Dr. Paul Ogwuma, and Chief Anthony Ani, remains the best till date.

Can there be any wonder, therefore, that Nigerians in their millions cannot fail to contemplate the shrew, practical, resourceful and often irritatingly dynamic leadership qualities of their only leader who came close to possessing the ennobling ethos of a national hero? It can be said emphatically that Nigerians can appreciate good things and love to celebrate a hero when they see one. The Nigerian intelligentsia including scholars, students in Nigeria and the world over still celebrate him. Which is why twenty one years after his untimely death, memories of Abacha’s pragmatic leadership still linger in their consciousness. It is as a result of the scarcity of men of Abacha’s latent qualities in leadership positions that Nigerians are yearning for him twenty one years after. But a time will surely come again when the most endowed nation in Africa will overcome its indifference to the degradation of its citizens. Only then can Gen. Abacha’s tall legacies be seen to have exemplary values.

APC and Buhari is the greatest thing ever happen to Nigeria

Awesome

Awesome.. "they say Covid19" I say few C02 to Mother Earth's lungs

Ok the summary.
Aiming for Nigeria’s presidency is not the way; neither is it a matter of a new coalition for power and certainly not in retaining Nigeria’s current political economy.
Self-Determination/Autonomy for all the Peoples of Nigeria is the way.
Tinubu should be relegated to a Secessionist leader like Ojukwu or Kanu. ”Yoruba Nation as a Nation in and for itself, the rationale behind the agitation for True Federalism anchored on Ethno-Lingual Categories.

This is the person who wrote this epistle.
Wale Michael Odeku
I will judge this book by its cover

Liman vowed that his group comprising states chapter chairmen like Arc. Bala Kangiwa (Kebbi), Habibi Sara (Jigawa) Ade Adetimeli (Ondo) Abdullahi Abbas (Kano), Abba Yaro, Omotosin Paul (Ekiti), Mohammed Jibril Iman (Niger) Anslem Ojezua (Edo), Philips Shekwo (Nasarawa), Rtd Air Com Ikeda (Kaduna), Lakep Dabah (Plateau), Shitu Shitu (Katsina), Isah Sadiq Acida (Sokoto) will not back down on their demand for the removal of Oshiomhole.
Oshiomole just resigned this is not NLC

This is illegal. Igberetv review this article and take it down...

All these machinations have nothing to do with Oshiomhole as chairman. Of course, he has his own problems, because, yes, he is autocratic coming from the labour background. Running the party to him is like a fight, as every enemy has to be crushed. So, he is not diplomatic.

So that is not the issue. He is not new on the political turf having served as chairman of NLC and governor for eight years. He has not changed anything about his character. I think the Bagudu-led Progressive Governors’ group thought they had control of the situation, but when NEC convened, they found out really they don’t have the numbers.

Of all the NWC members, majority knows the imperfection of the chairman, but like Buhari said, constitutionally how do you just say you have removed the chairman of the party because there are set down rules and regulations. If not for Buhari's soft character and too much diplomacy Oshiomole would have been removed

Arising from the foregoing and having regards to the huge responsibilities bestowed on us as officers of the party and in the overriding interest of our members, we are left with no option but to demand that Comrade Adams Oshiomhoie resign his position, as national chairman in other to stem the slide and provide an enabling environment for genuine healing, reconciliation and the practice of true democracy within the party across the country.

You will have your supporters and you will have your adversaries and this is normal and what is important is that in the political party there must be expressions of various views; there must be the accommodation of tendencies, but what should never be allowed is to engage in anti-party activities. We didn’t even discuss that because it is not yet a major issue for the attention of NEC. So Oshiomole just resigned peacefully. Before it get messy for you and your goons.
From lake Havasu City
Good morning Nigerians

Al-khul is very bad and can literally makes people to act like Animals... About kidney diseases. Borno and yobe av the highest number of kidney failures in Nigeria. the first person to undergo dialysis in Nigeria is in Gaidam yobe. And they have the lowest number of al-khul drinkers. Majority of the kidney problems are caused by our water. Nigerians literally drink their own faeces and urine because there's No sewage system in Nigeria. All the table water companies use harmful chemicals to treat Waters. But Buhari is looking into it and everything will be fine sewage system will be built across Nigeria very soon.

Misinformations.

I'm writing to wish you a happy birthday and to thank you for your service to our country. You are an inspiration, and I hope you have many more years to keep up the good work.
Thank you for your brave and fearless leadership. I hope that you have a day of joy and rest on your birthday.

I'm writing to wish you a happy birthday and to thank you for your service to our country. You are an inspiration, and I hope you have many more years to keep up the good work.
Thank you for your brave and fearless leadership. I hope that you have a day of joy and rest on your birthday.
2023 Sai Osibanjo

That's awesome